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No. 284,351. Patented sept. 4, 188s.

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JOHN 1).."ARNOLD, or rHiLAnELPHiA, EENNsvLvANiA- WHIP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 284,351, dated September 4, 1883.

lApplication filed .Tune 22, 188s. (No nodal.)

Tc all whom/vit may concern .1

Be it known that I, JOHN P. ARNOLD, a citi- `zen of the United States, and a resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvement in Whips, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists of a device, fully described hereinafter, for securely fastening the lash'of a Whip to a stock or handle; also, of a combination of parts by which the lash can be readily detached from the handle and the lat- -ter converted into a walking-cane.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view of my improved whip; Figs. 2 and 3, sectional views of parts of the handle and lash, drawn to a larger scale. and showing the simplest manner of Carrying out my invention;

other feature of `my invention.

The stock or handle A of the whip may be made of any kind of tough Wood, the lash B, preferably, consisting of a rawhide strip braided or plaited. A metal collar, c, is fitted tightly to the lash near the butt-end of the same, as

shown iniFigs. 2 and 3, a pin, b, passing through the lash, and being `adapted to notches in the l collar; or any other available plan of so securing the said collar that it cannot `be dislodged from the butt-end of the lash may be adopted. The lash is secured to the handle A by first passing the said lash through a tapering ferrule, D, having an internal, flange, w, at its smallest end, and then driving the ferrule onto the tapering end of the handle A, so that the iiange, acting on the collar,shall firmly confine the same, after which a pin, fw, may be driven through the ferrule and handle `and v riveted at the ends.

If the lash has to be made easily detachable from the handle-as, for instance, when the conversion of the handle into a walking-cane is desired- I adopt the plan' shown in Figs. 4

` 4and 5. In this case a tapering ferrule, `D',

closed at its small end, is fitted" and secured i to the reducedportion m of the handle A, this ferrule being threaded on the outside to receive an outer and internally-threaded ferrule, D, which has an internal iiange, x, for confining the butt-end of the lash in the manner described above. When the handle has to be used as a cane, this outer ferrule may be unscrewed from the inner ferrule, thereby releasing the lash from the handle, after which an internallythreaded ferrule, H, closed at its smaller end, maybe screwed onto the inner ferrule, as shown in Eig. 5.

A bayonet-joint or other form of retainer `may be used in place of a screw-thread for securing the ferrules D and H to the ferrule D.

If desired, the collar a may be secured to the lash B some distance from theend of the same, and the end of the lash `may project into an opening inthe end-of the handle.

I do not claim, broadly, a combined cane and l whip, as various plans of detachably connecting whip-lashes to sticks have been heretofore devised; hence I claimas my inventionl Y 1. The combination of the handle A and a lash, B, having a collar, a, secured to the same above the butt, With a ferrule, D, constructed for attachment to the end of the handle, and` having an internal flange, w, forming a bearing` for the collar c,- as set forth. Y

' 2. Thecombination of the handle, having a ferrule, D, secured thereto, with the lash B,

having a collar, c, secured to the same above the butt, and the outer ferrule, D, having the intern al flange, and constructed for application, to and removal from the ferrule, D, ,as set forth. y

In testimony whereof Ihave signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

JOHN P. (ARNOLD.

Witnesses:

HARRY L. ASHENEELTEE, 'HARRY SMITH. 

